AIDS in Africa

Maria V.

What is my research topic? What are some research keywords?

My research topic is: AIDS in Africa
Some keywords I used to help me research are: AIDS, Africa, disease, and South Africa.

What does Aids mean? What is the definition or description of Aids?

Aids stands for acquired/ immune deficiency syndrome. Aids is the type of disease called retroviruses.
Aids severely damages the immune system, the body's most important defense against disease.
Researchers have detected in HIV in a specimen collected in 1959 in central Africa.
Millions of AIDS cases have been diagnosed worldwide.
Aids is the final life-threatening stage of infection with human immune deficiency virus (HIV).

Why is Aids important in Africa?

Why is Aids a problem or issue in Africa?

Because the population is going down. the population was(2005 estimate), 46,888,000.
And because it has bin estimated that by the end of the century 10.7 million children in Africa will have lost their mother or both their parents to Aids before they reach their 15th birthday.

How does Aids affect the people who live in Africa?

South Africa faced a serious health crisis when the deadly disease AIDS began to spread rapidly during the 1990's.
In the early 21st century South Africa had more people infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, than any other country.
Population (2005 estimates), 46,888,000.

What does the rest of the world (Not Africa) think about Aids? What is the global reaction to Aids?

What can be done to help the problem of Aids? What is being done to correct Aids

Africa can make efforts to estimate the impact of HIV and AIDS.
Many efforts have been made to estimate the impact of HIV and AIDS on the economies of Africa, with little results.
Many of the content's economies are in flux, and all are that are both interdependent of Aids epidemic and interdependent with it.
In Zimbabwe when the Minister of finance presented his Budget speech for 2000, he introduced a new tax... a 3% on money earned by individuals and corporations to pay for Aids.

What is my personal opinion of Aids? How do I react and feel about Aids?

My personal opinion of Aids is that Aids is very bad.
It can kill a lot of people.
But its not all Aids fault that people die its HIV's too.
I feel like Aids is awful to have, just knowing that you might die.
Like the people who have aids suffer so much they never know if they will die or not.
If I had Aids I will be so scared just like the little kids in Africa.

Bibliography and Works Cited

Written and Print Resources
#1	Type of Resource: Book Title: Aids in developing countries Author: Nancy Harrison Publisher: Greenhaven Press Year:2003 Pages I Used: Page#27
#2	Type of Resource: Book Title: Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS Author: Deborah Ellis Publisher:Deborah Ellis Year:2005 Pages I Used: none
#3	Type of Resource: Encyclopedia Title: World Book "Aids" Author: D. Peter Drotman Publisher: World Book, Inc Year:2004 Pages I Used:
These are the books, magazines, or encyclopedias I found in the library.

Online or Internet Resources
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This webpage was created for educational purposes by: Maria V.

Made on: Thursday, March 20, 2008 14:02 PM

Mrs. Jaubert-Smith's Social Studies Class